Bottom Line:
After therapy neurological status was improved.Various complications of the disease, such as endocarditis and heart valves disturbances, are well known and are the most severe complications of the generalised infection.Proper targeted and long-term antibiotic therapy is crucial.

Methods: We are presenting the clinical course of infection (E. rhusiopathiae) and discuss clinical forms. E. rhusiopathiae in humans may have the following clinical course: mild form of skin infection diagnosed as local erythema (erysipeloid), disseminated form of skin infection and the most serious form of infection of systemic course (endocarditis and sepsis). Mild skin infection and local erythema are the most common forms. Very rare case of animal-borne infection course has been presented in which after initial phase the disease was generalised to the abscesses formation in paravertebral space, spondylitis and empyema formation in spinal canal. In the presented clinical case, the patient was suffering from diabetes. It was probably an additional risk factor of the disease generalisation. Patient underwent drainage of empyema in spinal canal, after which his neurological status gradually improved. Antibiotic therapy was implemented and continued for 8 weeks. Such course of erysipelas was not previously described in the literature.

Results: After therapy neurological status was improved. In follow MRI control exam empyema and spondylitis was successfully eliminated.

Conclusions: Various complications of the disease, such as endocarditis and heart valves disturbances, are well known and are the most severe complications of the generalised infection. Proper targeted and long-term antibiotic therapy is crucial.

Fig3: MRI postoperative control examination 6 days after operation. Decompression of spinal canal. Spondylodiscitis. Lesion of the spinal cord in postoperative level

Mentions:
Postoperative MRI examination revealed state after the hemilaminectomy and empyema drainage. The presence of inflammatory changes mainly in the Th5–Th6 segment in form of oedema of vertebral bodies, wedge-shaped vertebral bodies and uneven shape of intervertebral disc, spinal cord oedema, suspicion of inflammation, remnants of the empyema cavity in the spinal canal was observed. Clinically, unchanged neurological state was observed. Once the wound was healed, the patient was transferred to the Department of Infectious and Animal-borne Diseases and Rehabilitation with the brace (Fig. 3).Fig. 3

Fig3: MRI postoperative control examination 6 days after operation. Decompression of spinal canal. Spondylodiscitis. Lesion of the spinal cord in postoperative level

Mentions:
Postoperative MRI examination revealed state after the hemilaminectomy and empyema drainage. The presence of inflammatory changes mainly in the Th5–Th6 segment in form of oedema of vertebral bodies, wedge-shaped vertebral bodies and uneven shape of intervertebral disc, spinal cord oedema, suspicion of inflammation, remnants of the empyema cavity in the spinal canal was observed. Clinically, unchanged neurological state was observed. Once the wound was healed, the patient was transferred to the Department of Infectious and Animal-borne Diseases and Rehabilitation with the brace (Fig. 3).Fig. 3

Bottom Line:
After therapy neurological status was improved.Various complications of the disease, such as endocarditis and heart valves disturbances, are well known and are the most severe complications of the generalised infection.Proper targeted and long-term antibiotic therapy is crucial.

Methods: We are presenting the clinical course of infection (E. rhusiopathiae) and discuss clinical forms. E. rhusiopathiae in humans may have the following clinical course: mild form of skin infection diagnosed as local erythema (erysipeloid), disseminated form of skin infection and the most serious form of infection of systemic course (endocarditis and sepsis). Mild skin infection and local erythema are the most common forms. Very rare case of animal-borne infection course has been presented in which after initial phase the disease was generalised to the abscesses formation in paravertebral space, spondylitis and empyema formation in spinal canal. In the presented clinical case, the patient was suffering from diabetes. It was probably an additional risk factor of the disease generalisation. Patient underwent drainage of empyema in spinal canal, after which his neurological status gradually improved. Antibiotic therapy was implemented and continued for 8 weeks. Such course of erysipelas was not previously described in the literature.

Results: After therapy neurological status was improved. In follow MRI control exam empyema and spondylitis was successfully eliminated.

Conclusions: Various complications of the disease, such as endocarditis and heart valves disturbances, are well known and are the most severe complications of the generalised infection. Proper targeted and long-term antibiotic therapy is crucial.